The line up of VinFast vehicles now includes the tiny VF3 city car and the ultra-luxurious Hac Long 900 built on the VF9 platform. (Photo for Cleantechnica by author)
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There is a distinct difference between watching an industrial birth from the clean gallery of a press junket and standing on the factory floor while the machinery runs at scale.
Five years ago, I wrote a piece for CleanTechnica outlining six reasons why VinFast could become an electric vehicle superpower. At the time, the proposition seemed ambitious. VinFast was still producing internal combustion engine vehicles, global sales were negligible, and the company had yet to prove it could compete outside Vietnam. What stood out then was not volume or profitability but something less tangible: speed, ambition and a willingness to take risks that most established automakers would never consider.
A return to a comeback
